Police dog was 'confused' in Prestatyn attack investigation

A POLICE dog was unable to track a scent from the back door of the house where Simon David Morris is alleged to have launched a hammer attack on his pregnant girlfriend while she slept, Mold Crown Court heard yesterday.

A POLICE dog was unable to track a scent from the back door of the house where Simon David Morris is alleged to have launched a hammer attack on his pregnant girlfriend while she slept, Mold Crown Court heard yesterday.

PC Louise Evans said that when she arrived at the couple’s home in Calthorpe Drive, Prestatyn, Morris had already opened the back door. The dog would track the latest scent and this would only have confused him, she said.

Her dog, Belgian Shepherd Diesel, was “a very good tracker”.

PC Damien Boyle told the jury how he arrived early on August 15 at the house in Galthorpe Drive, Prestatyn, and he believed that they were dealing with a domestic incident.

He found Nerys Price with a head injury and she was clearly very heavily pregnant.

The officer said Morris started volunteering information of how he felt people may have been present in the house.

The officer said: “He was repeating himself and not making too much sense.”

The part he was least clear about was precisely what had happened in the bedroom.

The officer asked Morris if he had any injuries, and he said that perhaps he had received an injury to his back, but on examination he could not see anything.